Paul A. Monach, MD, PhD

Adjunct Associate Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

My research is focused on clinical and translational research in vasculitis: biomarkers, genetics, and clinical trials.

I have led studies aimed at identifying new markers that could improve diagnosis, staging, assessment of current disease activity, and predicting the future course of disease, using proteins detectable in the blood or urine and gene expression profiles in blood cells.

I have also led candidate genes studies in vasculitis and has been involved in the planning and recruitment for genome-wide association studies in multiple forms of vasculitis.

I have participated in most multi-center clinical trials conducted over the past 10 years in the US, in various vasculitides.

This work has been conducted through NIH-funded consortia: the Vasculitis Clinical Research Consortium and the RAVE/ITN Study Group. In addition, I have been a member of the Immunological Genome Project Consortium and contributed data on gene expression in mouse neutrophils to that effort.

Publications

  • Published 11/1/2020

    Gribbons KB, Ponte C, Carette S, Craven A, Cuthbertson D, Hoffman GS, Khalidi NA, Koening CL, Langford CA, Maksimowicz-McKinnon K, McAlear CA, Monach PA, Moreland LW, Pagnoux C, Quinn KA, Robson JC, Seo P, Sreih AG, Suppiah R, Warrington KJ, Ytterberg SR, Luqmani R, Watts R, Merkel PA, Grayson PC. Patterns of Arterial Disease in Takayasu Arteritis and Giant Cell Arteritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2020 11; 72(11):1615-1624. PMID: 31444857.

    Read at: PubMed

  • Published 2/1/2020

    Moran SM, Monach PA, Zgaga L, Cuthbertson D, Carette S, Khalidi NA, Koening CL, Langford CA, McAlear CA, Moreland L, Pagnoux C, Seo P, Specks U, Sreih A, Wyse J, Ytterberg SR, Merkel PA, Little MA. Urinary soluble CD163 and monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in the identification of subtle renal flare in anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2020 02 01; 35(2):283-291. PMID: 30380100.

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  • Published 12/1/2019

    Quinn KA, Gelbard A, Sibley C, Sirajuddin A, Ferrada MA, Chen M, Cuthbertson D, Carette S, Khalidi NA, Koening CL, Langford CA, McAlear CA, Monach PA, Moreland LW, Pagnoux C, Seo P, Specks U, Sreih AG, Ytterberg SR, Merkel PA, Grayson PC. Subglottic stenosis and endobronchial disease in granulomatosis with polyangiitis. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2019 12 01; 58(12):2203-2211. PMID: 31199488.

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  • Published 9/25/2019

    Kronbichler A, Leierer J, Shin JI, Merkel PA, Spiera R, Seo P, Langford CA, Hoffman GS, Kallenberg CGM, St Clair EW, Brunetta P, Fervenza FC, Geetha D, Keogh KA, Monach PA, Ytterberg SR, Mayer G, Specks U, Stone JH. Association of Pulmonary Hemorrhage, Positive Proteinase 3, and Urinary Red Blood Cell Casts With Venous Thromboembolism in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 11; 71(11):1888-1893. PMID: 31216123.

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  • Published 9/16/2019

    Wallace ZS, Fu X, Liao K, Kallenberg CGM, Langford CA, Merkel PA, Monach P, Seo P, Specks U, Spiera R, St Clair EW, Zhang Y, Choi H, Stone JH. Disease Activity, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody Type, and Lipid Levels in Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-Associated Vasculitis. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2019 11; 71(11):1879-1887. PMID: 31162829.

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Education

  • University of Chicago, MD
  • University of Chicago, PhD
  • Harvard University, AB

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